I understand geometrically they have the same number of holes but in my head straws still have two holes because they have an “inside” so both entrances to the inside have to be a hole.

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I haven’t looked into it at all but I expect IPs are visible to instance admins. That’s pretty typical of any online platform.

I only opened RIF out of habit about 3 times

So far I’ve tried Jerboa and Connect, they’re obviously not feature complete yet but both are definitely serviceable.

Everybody has to learn everything some time.